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A group of students made a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge in late 2023 by detecting ink patterns in a scroll, which allowed researchers to extract words for the first time.

The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in England. A team involved in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition offering ...

A badly burnt Roman scroll destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been “unwrapped” for the first time in 2,000 years by using AI. The document, which looks like a lump of ...

Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek ...

French calligrapher Claude Mediavilla in her monumental work, From Calligraphy to Abstract Painting, describes it as “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skilful ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

wood, scenic vistas, flowers, fabric, or architectural elements it imitates.” A fragment of antique wallpaper, Greer suggests, is precious enough to frame and hang as art.

Past research suggests that meditation and exposure to art or nature can positively impact ... Angeles set out to examine the brain activation patterns associated with a visualization-based ...

So it changed how I saw art,” Bilal said. His brother was killed by a missile strike in their hometown in Iraq back in 2004. The scene is part of “Indulge Me” which puts a target on the ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.